RE: The database is full! – SQLServerCentral

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September 3, 2012 at 6:34 pm

chandar.sp (9/3/2012)
SQL SERVER DATABASE FULL HOW DO WE TROUBLESHOOT?

Just a friendly tip. Most people consider all-caps to be someonne yelling.

Back to your problem. Troubleshooting is over. You already know what's wrong. You've exceeded the limits of SQL Express.

First, check the log file and make sure that's not what's hogging all the space. Most people forget to backup SQL Express log files for FULL recovery databases.

If that's not it, then you really do have a full database and you need to do one of two things... archive some of the data so you can delete it or move some of the data to another database.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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